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Privacy Policy

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GabbyAware Privacy Policy

This policy explains how GabbyAware collects, uses, displays, and protects information while providing situational awareness.

Effective: August 1, 2026

About GabbyAware

GabbyAware is a situational-awareness service operated by Eloquence Digital, LLC. It gathers and organizes selected public information to identify community topics, emerging issues, and potential operational impacts. Public discussion is treated as a lead to assess—not automatically as verified fact, community consensus, or evidence of wrongdoing. AI-assisted analysis is not represented as active unless a separately approved and auditable workflow is enabled.

Information we collect

Depending on the feature being used, GabbyAware may process:

  • Public-source information: material published by government agencies, news organizations, public websites, and public social-media pages, groups, or profiles.
  • Public social content: public posts and comments, display names or handles, timestamps, brief excerpts, source-page names, and links to the original public content.
  • Account information: a registered user's name, email address, role, and authentication-provider identifier when social sign-in is used.
  • Access-request information: a requester's name, email address, optional organization, requested access level, intended use, verification status, and administrator review record.
  • Operational records: source submissions, approvals, administrative actions, collection results, email-delivery events, and security logs.
  • Technical information: standard server records such as IP address, browser type, access time, requested page, and error or security events.

GabbyAware is not designed to collect private messages, content from private groups or profiles, social-media passwords, or information that is not lawfully available to the service.

How we use information

  • Identify and summarize community topics and potential situational-awareness signals.
  • Compare public discussion with official sources and reported coverage.
  • Display attributed public examples and links when helpful for context.
  • Operate, secure, troubleshoot, and improve the service.
  • Manage user accounts, permissions, source approvals, and administrative workflows.
  • Send account, invitation, security, and other transactional communications.
  • Meet legal obligations and enforce service policies.

GabbyAware does not sell personal information, serve behaviorally targeted advertising, rank or endorse political candidates, or use its data for donor targeting.

Sharing and service providers

Information may be handled by service providers that support hosting, email delivery, authentication, security, data processing, and site operations. They receive only the access reasonably needed to provide those services. Information may also be disclosed when required by law, to protect rights or safety, or as part of a business transfer subject to appropriate safeguards.

Public-source material displayed by GabbyAware remains attributable to its original source. Visiting an external link is governed by that destination's own terms and privacy practices.

Retention and security

We retain information only as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described here, including operational continuity, audit requirements, security, and legal obligations. We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards, but no internet service can guarantee absolute security.

Access, correction, and data deletion

You may request access to, correction of, or deletion of account information associated with GabbyAware by emailing privacy@gabbyaware.com. Please use the email address associated with your account and describe the request. We may need to verify your identity before completing it.

To request removal of public Facebook or other public social content displayed by GabbyAware, send the direct GabbyAware page link and the original source link when available. Removing a copy or excerpt from GabbyAware does not delete the original content from the platform or publisher that hosts it; requests concerning the original content should be directed to that platform or publisher.

We will respond within a reasonable period and may retain limited records when required for security, fraud prevention, legal compliance, or to document the request.

Children's privacy

GabbyAware is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as GabbyAware changes. The effective date at the top of this page will identify the current version. Material changes will be communicated when appropriate.

Contact

Privacy questions or requests may be sent to:
Eloquence Digital, LLC
privacy@gabbyaware.com

Commission Watch reference

Terms & acronyms

Plain-language definitions for Polk County budgets, meetings, public records, and purchasing.

26 terms

Budget and revenue

All-funds budget

The combined spending plan across the County’s governmental, enterprise, special-revenue, capital, debt-service, and other funds. It is not one flexible account, and much of it cannot be redirected to ordinary operations.

General Fund

The County’s principal operating fund for services that are not required to be accounted for in a separate fund. Even here, legal obligations and adopted policy constrain many choices.

Millage

A property-tax rate expressed in mills. One mill equals $1 of tax for each $1,000 of taxable value. The final bill also depends on assessed value and exemptions.

Rolled-back rate

The calculated millage rate that would generally produce the same property-tax revenue as the prior year, excluding specified adjustments such as new construction. A rate above it is a tax increase under Florida’s public-notice framework even when the nominal millage rate falls.

MSTU / MSBU

An MSTU is a Municipal Service Taxing Unit funded through property taxes for a defined service area. An MSBU is a Municipal Service Benefit Unit, commonly funded through assessments tied to a particular service or benefit.

Special assessment

A charge imposed for a specific service or benefit, such as fire protection or solid waste. It is distinct from ad valorem property tax and must have a legally supportable relationship to the service or benefit.

Reserves / contingencies

Money set aside for emergencies, uncertainty, cash-flow needs, or specific future obligations. Reserves can bridge a temporary gap, but using them does not permanently replace lost recurring revenue.

Fund balance forward

Resources carried from a prior fiscal year into the new budget. It may include restricted, committed, assigned, or unassigned amounts and should not automatically be treated as recurring revenue.

Recurring vs. nonrecurring

Recurring revenue and expense are expected to continue year after year. Nonrecurring resources, such as a one-time balance or asset sale, can cover a temporary need but create risk when used for ongoing costs.

CIP

Polk County’s Community Investment Program: the multi-year plan for major facilities, infrastructure, equipment, and other capital projects. Later-year amounts are plans and projections, not proof that every project has been contracted or completed.

Surtax

An additional local sales tax authorized for defined purposes and, depending on the authority used, often subject to voter approval, duration, distribution, and eligible-use requirements.

Fiscal year (FY)

The 12-month accounting period used for the budget. Polk County labels budgets by fiscal year rather than the calendar year; always check the exact dates and whether a figure is adopted, proposed, or projected.

Meetings and decisions

BOCC

Board of County Commissioners, the elected five-member governing body for Polk County government. BOCC figures do not automatically include cities, the School Board, or every special district in Polk County.

Agenda

The published list of matters scheduled for a meeting. An agenda shows what may be considered; it does not prove that an item was approved, denied, amended, or even heard.

Motion and second

A motion formally proposes Board action. A second allows the proposal to proceed to discussion or vote; neither act alone establishes approval.

Minutes

The County’s written record of a meeting and its actions. Gabby labels results provisional while minutes are draft and treats them as final only after the County publishes final minutes.

Ordinance

A local law adopted by the Board through the legally required process. Ordinances generally have continuing effect and may amend the County Code.

Resolution

A formal expression or action of the Board, often used for administrative, policy, fee, assessment, or special-purpose decisions. Its legal effect depends on the authority and text.

Public hearing

A formally noticed opportunity for public testimony before specified government action. Requirements vary by the type of budget, ordinance, land-use, assessment, or other decision.

Quorum

The minimum number of members who must be present for the Board to conduct official business.

Programs and purchasing

Federal Poverty Level (FPL)

Federal Poverty Level, a federal income guideline used by many assistance programs. Eligibility may be expressed as a percentage of the guideline and can include additional program rules.

Procurement solicitation

A public request for vendors to offer goods, services, construction, qualifications, or pricing under stated requirements. A solicitation is an opportunity—not an awarded contract.

ITB

Invitation to Bid, commonly used when requirements are well defined and award is primarily based on responsive, responsible pricing under the solicitation rules.

RFP

Request for Proposals, used when the County evaluates approach, qualifications, price, and other stated factors rather than price alone.

RFQ

Request for Qualifications. Context matters: agencies sometimes use similar initials for a request for quotations, so the official solicitation title and documents control.
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